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This well timed choice of essays deals one of many first critical efforts to evaluate the list of yankee international coverage over the process the 20 th century. The essays include the paintings of political scientists in addition to historians, conservatives in addition to liberals, international students in addition to americans. starting off from Henry Luce's imaginative and prescient of an "American century," the authors talk about such vital issues because the American notion of the nationwide curiosity, the stress among democracy and capitalism, the U. S. position in either the constructed and underdeveloped worlds, get together politics and international coverage, the importance of race in American overseas kinfolk, and the cultural effect of yankee international relations at the international at huge. the result's a full of life choice of essays by means of authors who usually disagree yet who still give you the reader with willing insights concerning the previous and provocative perspectives of the long run.
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BUT WE WILL WIN IT . . The big question is how So there's the mess—to date. Much more could be said in amplification, in qualification, and in argument. But, however elaborately they might be stated, the sum of the facts about our present position brings us to this point—that the paramount question of this immediate moment is not whether we get into war but how do we win it? If we are in a war, then it is no little advantage to be aware of the fact. And once we admit to ourselves we are in a war, there is The American Century 17 no shadow of doubt that we Americans will be determined to win it—cost what it may in life or treasure.
As to the third point—the promise of adequate production for all mankind, the "more abundant life"—be it noted that this is characteristically an American promise. " What we must insist on is that the abundant life is predicated on Freedom— on the Freedom which has created its possibility—on a vision of Freedom under Law. Without Freedom, there will be no abundant life. With Freedom, there can be. And finally there is the belief—shared let us remember by most men living—that the 20th Century must be to a significant degree an American Century.
In the past, certain countries and regions resisted outside efforts to change them. For example, the ruling elites of Russia, Japan, and Germany were determined in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that their defensive modernization not mean that they lose their national souls to Western ways. A century later, despite democracy's gains, its prospects are dim in situations of anarchy - such as typifies much of Africa, the Caucasus, 46 Tony Smith and the Balkans - and also where proud and ancient civilizations stand determined that Westernization shall not be their fate.